182 STAF}t"'!Q RDSH1RE: ' (KELLYS Jones Thoinas, beer retailer, Bigli st .Pigott Wm. Thomas, plnmber;High st Vickers Samuel.. greengrocer, High st Leech Thos. shopkeeper, Heath street Plant Tholl. butchr. & graengro.High st Vo!untt>er Battalion. (1st) The Prince Lewis Jas. stationer, Post office,High st Rawlings George, beer Tet . .A.cres nook of Wales' '(North Staffordshire Regi- Lindop David, l!tationer, High street Rawlins Jsph. farmer, LittleColclough ment) (F Co. Capt.G. W. Laybourn, LongshawEli.za{Mrs.),fishmngr.High st Reev'es Ambrose, beer ret.Oldcott grn corn. 1 Lieutenants Harry Olive &. Loveland Hannah (Mrs.), smallware Reeves John, shopkeeper, High street Laurence Olive; Rev. T. Nunn, act. dealer, High street• Rhead George, farmer, Park farm chaplain) Mear Uaaa, furniture dealer, High st Rigby Mary (¥rs.), sbopkpr.Heath st Wbittaker Samuel, beer ret. New st Mullingtt}ll :Mary (Mrs.), beer retlr. Riley John, tailor & draper, High st Wilkinson Wm. By. beer ret. High st High street . Sillito & Son, grocers, High street Williamson J obn Hens ball, Golden Hill Nixon William, beer retailer, Higli st Stonier William, butcher, High street cobalt, nickel, potters' calor & bora.:t Parr Harry, pawnbro.& clothr.High st Stubbs Frank, hair dresser, High st works Partington William M.B., C.M. sur- Taylot Robert, shopkeeper, Church st Wilson William, farmer, Gill bank geon, High street Turner Edwin, beer retailer, High st Wooliscroft Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Peake Sarah (Mrs.), grocer, Taylor st Unwin Mary (Mrs.), grocer, High st High street GRATWICH is a small village and parish, in the vale net yearly value £170, with 20 acres of glebe and resi of the river BlytJhe, 1! miles north-west from the Grindley dence, in the gift of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, station on the Great Northern railway, 4 west-by-south and held since 1899 by the Rev. Arthur Thomas Brereton. from Uttoxeter and 1I north-north-east from Stafford, The Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot is lord of the manor in the Burton division of the county, Utto:x:eter union, and principal landowner. The soil is of a rich marly petty sessional division and county court district, South character; subsoil, chiefly clay. The land is principally Totmonslow hundred, rural deanery of Uttoxeter, arch- in pasture for dairy purposes. The area is '86o acres of deaconry of Stoke-on-Trent and diocese of Lichfield. The land and 5 of water; rateable value, j;I,OI2; the popula churoh of St. Mary is a small and plain rectangular struc- tion in 1901 was 57· ture of brick, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and has one bell: it was repaired about 1845, and affords Letteril received through Uttoxeter R.S.O. which is also 70 sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at year 1700; marriages, 1698; burials, 1699. The living 9.30 a.m. Wall Letter Box near the blacksmith's shop, is a rectory, with the vicarage of Kingston annexed, joint cleared at 4 p.m. winter, 4·45 p.m. summer Brereton Rev. Arthur Thomas,Rectory Collis William, farmer & overseer for Maskery George, shoe maker Bennion Samuel, farmer, Wood farm parish of Gratwich, Bank top Prince Samuel, farmer, Brook house Bloor James, farmer, Stoney Lane frm Martin Wilmott, farmer, Church farm Wilson Thomas, blacksmith & cowkpr GRIND ON is a pariSih and -village occupying a high £20 left by Thomas Titterton in 1745; and a sum of Ios. moorland situation between the Hamps and Manifold left by John Port is also distributed. The poor of Grin Tivers, which unite their streams in the grounds of Ilam don have also a sum of £z Ios. annually from two fields ·Hall, ID miles east-by-south from Leek station on the situated at Butterton. The view across Grindon Moor North Staffordshire railway; it is in the Leek division to Onecote, on a clear day, is one of the most extensive of the county, North Totmonslow hundred, Leek union, in the north of Staffordshire. Miss Oompton Wbyte is petty sessional division and county court district, rural lady of the manor. The land is entirely freehold. deanery of .A.lstonfield, archdeaconry of Stoke-on-Trent Nearly tw
Samuel Bradsbaw, is a building <>f stone in the Late holders. The soil is loam; subsoil1 limestone. The land "Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles. south is {)hiefly pasturage. The area is 3,260 acres of land and porch and an embattled western tower with octagonal 14 of water; and the pop\llat-ion in rgor was 355· spire; containing 3 b~lls; there is a mural tablet, erected Deepdale, half a. mile south; Ford, in the romantic 11.t a cost of £ wo by Mrs. Brads haw, in memory of her valley of the Hamps, 2 miles west; Hillsda'l.e, half a mile husliand, -and a brass in memory of Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. north-west; and Martinslow, r! miles south-west, are bir Brydges Trecothic Henniker, of Newton Hall, Essex, hamlets. bart, who died 3rd July, r866, and his son, Sir Frederick :Renniker, second bart. who died 6th August, 1825: the Parish Clerk, John Mycock Allen. church affords about 250 sittings. The register dates Letters sent & received by foot messenger daily from from the. year r6g7. The living is a rectory, net yearly Stoke-on-Trent, vial Leek, arrive at 10 a.m. WettDn is value £240, including 23 acres of glebe, with residence, the nearest money {Jrder & telegraph Dffice, about 3 j:o. the gift of the Bishop of Lichfield, and held since miles distant. Wall Letter Box, cleared 3·30 p.m. 1902 by the Rev. John Alexander Smith. In the church- week days yard is an ancient stone font and two stone coffins, dis- Letters from Ford arrive & are collected ;ro a.m covered under the foundation of the old church. A fair Public Elementary School, founded in 1724 by Humphrey is held here on November rst, being a Tuesday, <>r if Hall & the Rev. S. Norton, & endowed with £29 ws. not, on the Tuesday following. The poor of Grindon yearly, for 6o children; average attendance,. 55; John -and Butterton have half of £15 annually from land left Waiter, master by Ruth Stubbs in 1693, the other half going to May- Carriers: William Oliver Green & Mrs. Schofield, to field; the poor of Grindon have £r .zs. Sd. yearly, from Leek, wednesday Smith Rev. J<>hn Alexander, Rectory Goldstraw Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Mycock Richard, farmer, Manor farm Alien John Mycock, assistant overseer Dale farm My cock Richard, farmer, Saucefields Arrnitt Mary (Mrs.),frmr.Braddenbrk Goldstraw Jas. farmer, Grindon moor Mycock William, farmer, Ossoms hill Austin George, shopkeeper Goldstraw Tbos.jun.frm.r. Grindon mr Mycock William, farmel', Summer bill Beresford George, farmer Green William Oliver, Shoulder of Riley Sarn11el,farmer, Stoop Farm ford Birch James, farmer, Crown farm Mutton P.H. & carrier Robinson William, fal'IDIH, Ford Birch James, farmer, Mart.inslow Grocott Thomas, Bull's Head P.H St. John Ambulance Corps (William ~oden William (Mrs.), fa.rmer,Green- Hall.A.rthur, cowkeeper, Twist :Mycock, sec.; Wm. Oliver Green, head trm~r~ Hall Edward Jn. frmr. Causeway head storekeeper) 13ould James, farmer, Martinslow Hall Thomas, farmer, Pen Schofield Louisa (Mrs.), carrier Burnett Arth.frmr. Grindon Moor gte Hastings George, jun. farmer Sberrard Cbas. farmer, Bullclough Burnett Jn. Edwd. farmer, Cawbrook Howson Thomas, farmer Simpson Jesse, farmer, Wellcroft Burnett Thos. farmer, & estate agent Kent William, farmer Simpson Jesse, jun. frmr.Oldfield farm for Captain Henniker, Buckfurlong Melior Thos. cowkeeper, Grindon moor Simpson John, farmer, Hillsdale Chadwick Fras. farmer, Sheldon farm Moss Thomas, wheelwright Simpson Trevor, farmer & overseer, Chadwick George, farmer, Hillsdale Mycocl• Geo. & Wm.farmers,Fellhouse May furlong & Lomberhill Cook Josepb, farmer, Onecote hall Mycock Artbur, farmer, Deep dale Smith Charles(Mrs.),farmer,New close Cope Henry, farmer, Ford mill Mycock Hannah(Mrs.),frmr.Porch frm Smith Emma (Miss), farmer Fea.rns Jsph. (Mrs.),frmr.Grindon mr Mycock Henry, farmer, Ox close Stubbs Robert, farmer, Hillsdale lane Fowler John William, farmer,Ladyside Mycock James, cowkeeper,Saint moor Wheeldon Thos. farmer, Dairy house Gibson James, farmer, Grindon moor Mycock John, blacksmith HAM:MERWICH is a small village and parish of South Offiow, Lichfield and .Brownhills petty sessional pleasantly seated in a vale on the south-eastern edge of division, union and county court district of Lichfield, Cannock Chase, with a station on the Walsall and Derby rural deanery of Lichfield, archdeaconry of Stafford and section of the London and North Wes~rn railway, 3 diocese of Lichfield. Cannock Ohase is now almost en miles south-west from Lichfield and 7 north-east from tirely enclosed and the greater part under cultivation. Walsall, in the Lichfield division of the county, hundred Part of this chapelry was formed into an ecclesiastical